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Tenacious Worms

by Fronz Arp

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1.
If a love could affect Frankenstein Just a puzzle of flesh so entwined By the threads of his fathers conceit Like a noodle that’s too hot to eat He said one day I will find a Way To settle in this love But things have to end to begin She scrubbed her raven skin white To match the greed in her lovers moon eyes Like a spider on indolent web To catch the love that her heart won’t forget She said one day I will find a way To settle in this love But things have to end to begin Its never too late, no She said lover its never to late, no Lover its never too late But things have to end to begin Her arms hold the ghost of a man Though she grieves he will not be again But things have to end to begin til they stop Things have to end to begin
2.
You used to look good in a dress boy Hiding your anomolous anatomy The question of your pedigree But it's true what they say about men As a method of emotional economy Rejecting your autonomy When life is so cruel for the faithful Living with a heart that's such a prostitute Just look at what it's done to you You used to look good just frightened Hiding your anomolous anatomy The effect was much more flattering But envy is an angry dwarf And he's squealing like a piglet on a knife A pushing needle in your eye But I bet it was a private school boy That used to beat you senseless as a mute And fuck the self belief back out of you You think you're falling in love It used to be that you'd fall much farther It used to be that you'd trust them in time You hang your life on a string It used to be it would swing much farther It used to be that you'd trust them in time You used to look good in a dress boy Crying in a mirror built to shatter The anomalous anatomy
3.
Tessa hates her body so she traps in a bold disuise From behind it she can’t look me in the eyes And if it breaks when it falls Are the pieces left enough Why don’t you stay Why don’t you stay Tessa hates her body she attacks it with a cold despair And the lines she carves in her arms never disappear You were lying on the floor So I sewed your wrists close Why don’t you stay Why don’t you stay There’s a pressure on my chest There’s a pressure on my chest Why don’t you stay Why don’t you stay Look what I’ve become I’m just a strangers face in the mirror And I’m calling out I’m calling out I’m calling out behind you But you’re running like you can’t escape Why don’t you stay
4.
Could we live in our own private communism Under the darkened skies of our modernism Hands reaching out through the bars of our lonely prison Ripping and tearing the knees of our unforgiven Though there may be times in which you Seem a habit to me But could you want me Could you surely long to Be forever Happily married to me Could we live in our own private communism Eight arms and legs of a spidery orgnism Joined at the chest sewn with yarn thick with indecission Into patterns and glued to the walls of our contraception Though there may be times in which you seem A habit to me But could you want me Could you surely long to Be forever Happily married to me There's a monster at the door He's so red and jealous (don't be hasty) There's a hunter lying low He's so cold malicious (don't be hasty) And I'm every moment caught out unaware Though there may be times in which you Seem a habit to me But could you want me Could you surely long to Be forever Happily married to me you want me could you surely long to Be forever Happily married to me
5.
We're all just tiny furry happy animals Hiding from the hungry cannibals The wolves are scratching at my door Please chase them away Though urges pull like sore stitches Who'll save me from these horny bitches And the creatures flying around me That have sent me screaming Out into the traffic which is speeding past But as fast as I'm running well the headlights are still coming As the driver eyes her prospect with an itchy hand And a grin across his jaw She's got her foot down to the floor She's just a tiny furry happy animal Dressed up like an individual Her eyes are bright and shining with an innocent gaze But just incase my pallid destitute Flesh dissolves in casutic solitude My fingers close around her arm With the strangest feeling Like I don't believe there's a way out Because as fast as I'm running there's another one coming So I run faster I run faster I keep running running running But my legs are getting tired And my expectations crumbling She said come on come on You lost it hesitating You lost it hesitating She said come on come on You lost it hesitating You lost it hesitating She said come on come on You dropped it dropped it dropped it Like a burden We're all just tiny furry happy animals Hiding from the hungry cannibals The wolves are scratching at my door Please chase them away I've searched my blood for any symptom That's left by wine still in my system As I reach the open window so that I can sneak on out
6.
Car Crash 03:36
Car crash on the freeway I'm rolling around in a hurricane But before you walk away Before you walk away If you care for me If you care for me If you care for me Get me out? Car crash on the interstate Words with the sound of heart ache But before you can escape Before you can escape If you care for me Get me out? Just a minute though Another love has grown bitter cold And silent like inertia we'll fall into place He stared into a mirror And found a life that was frozen still Blinded by the lights of oncoming disdain Just get me out Just get me out If you care for me Would you wait for me Would you cry for me Would you lie for me Would you die for me Because I've got know where else to be
7.
Love is a cruel machine So get it out of my hands Winches sneeze my heart is pumping like a piston’s scream keeps me spinning round and round like wheels that are turning ‘til we’re Upside-down carbon, breathing lead and sound steel is bending under shifting walls tears are dry before they fall but it doesn’t matter much to me My blood is pumping like a train that is thumping Like a rhythm is jumping hear it… 1… 2… 1… 2… My eye is twitching like a whore who is twisting on the floor I can hear them Love is a cruel machine
8.
A Shy Bird 02:37
A shy bird sat in an oaken tree And drawn like a man to the violent sea My heartbeat stilled as she sang to me I caught her with my hand outreached And held her, so she’s mine to keep And now her song will never cease Oh what a joy What a friend Lend me your love As though I intent Oh what a toy What a man I’ve become To hold for too long The moonlight fell on an empty scene A silence where she used to be A ghost left by the unreleased And like a lover lost will never be the same And as the sunlight from the sky must surely fade So does the singing of a shy bird in a cage

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1st released in 2009, TENACIOUS WORMS musically and lyrically takes a destinct step to the left, focussing more on the quirky aspects Fronz Arp writing style. Originally titled "Angry Birds (Eat Tenacious Worms)" but retitled to TENACIOUS WORMS when the phone game "Angry Birds" was released and became popular

...songs full of drama and action, designed to get pulses racing and yet still sounding both intricate and adventurous” Rave Magazine

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released April 1, 2009

All songs written, produced, recorded and mixed by Fronz Arp
Co-Produced by Emma Dean
Except 'Tiny Furry Happy Animals' and 'A Shy Bird' recorded by Tara Simmons

Recorded and mixed at Ultrasonique Audio and Massive Masters
Mastered by Matt Redlich at Massive Masters

Musicians:
Emma Dean: Violin, Vocals
Tony Dean: Drums
Seamsus Kirkpatrick: Bass
Fronz Arp: Vocals, Guitars, Keys

Photography: Dan Sangermani for Red Eclipse Photography
Design: Angie White
Clothes supplied by Subfusco Designs

Special thanks:
Emma, Tony and Seamus, Dan and Jackie at Red Eclipse Photography, Angie White, Zuraya and Nick at Ultrasonique Audio, Matt at Massive Masters, Nelson Mansilla and Michelle Richards, Ben Preece at Mucho-Bravado, Pete Jones, Liz Murphy Tara Simmons and Sam Cutler

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Fronz Arp Brisbane, Australia

The strange machine which is Fronz Arp grinds like a tattered, angry little hurdy gurdy. With dramatic jaunt and seesawing melodies that have been compared to weird-pop wonders, such as David Bowie and Tom Waits

“...songs full of drama and action, designed to get pulses racing and yet still sounding both intricate and adventurous” Rave Magazine
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